I was wondering when junior high and high schools started having "'80s days" or '80s themed proms?  I still remember back in '99 when I watched the Drew Barrymore movie Never Been Kissed, and the teacher suggested that they have an '80s prom.....I was shocked.  It hit me that to many kids the '80s were total history, even though at that time in 1999, many of the older teenagers did actually grow up in the '80s, but they viewed it differently from me I guess.

I remember when I was in junior high in the late '80s, we had "'70s days", where kids came to school dressed up wearing '70s clothes.  We even had '50s days and '60s days.

When we had our '70s days back then, I never understood how awkward it must have been for my teachers or anyone who was in their early 20s or even late teens.  To us it was history and the '70s were a decade to mercilessly ridicule.

When I was in high school in the early '90s, it was still too early to start having '80s days or an '80s themed prom.  If it did happened, I would have been VERY surprised.  I seriously, seriously doubt that it occured in the mid '90s either, in the high schools anyway.  You know what, technically, it could have happened in the early '90s and ofcourse mid '90s, but again, man why would anyone who was a teenager then want to treat the late '80s as "history"?  I know I wouldn't have felt comfortable with it.    

Does anyone know when that started?  Because I remember being so floored when I found out that kids were dressing up in clothes I used to wear for a "special day" or a prom theme with an '80s flavor.  When they wore stuff from the early and mid '80s I didn't really care, as I was a little kid then, but I felt so old when I heard kids would wear something from the late '80s, like 1988 or 1989.  It's the same when I see an '80s music ad, whenever something from the late '80s pops up, I'm like "WTF!?"

I noticed it, too, and it made me feel entirely my age. ÊActually, it started fairly recently (99-2000). ÊIt came with the wave of 80s inspired movies and such(that started I believe in the mid-90s with "Romy & Michelle").....notice the return of t-shirts with Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, etc.? ÊI was really freaked out when I saw a student wearing a "Funky Winkerbean" t-shirt. ÊI hadn't heard that name in forever. ÊI hope they have some 80s theme days at my school......time to pull out the old trunk and show my students how it was Ê;D